Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 455
ll, and wasintended to hold only treasures. It holds them .^61 362 Two Centuries of Costume still, though they are not the silver-plate, the roundwatches, the narrow laces, and the precious camels-hair scarf. It now holds treasured relics of the oldentime; trifles, but not unconsidered ones; much… … Iron and Leather Pattens. 1760. Here is one little antick. It is an ample bagwith the neat double drawing-strings of our youth ;a bag, nay, a pocket. It once hung by the side ofsome one of my forbears, perhaps Elizabeth of thebrass-nailed initials. It was a much-esteemed pocket,though it is only of…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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